How the army is tweaking its vintage L-70 gun into a drone-killer
India TodayThe optical sights spotted the rogue drone hovering over the target area nearly 500 metres away. Four days later, on September 21, the army repeated the test at the Army Air Defence College on the seafront at Gopalpur, Odisha, and successfully intercepted another 0.6 metre wide commercially purchased drone. Part of a project started around a year ago by the Army Air Defence Corps, the system interfaces a counter-drone system made by a Hyderabad-based private player with the army’s in-service L-70 air defence gun. Existing ground-based air defence radars are unable to track commercially obtained drones because of their small size—a one-metre drone has the radar cross-section of a bird and can often be mistaken for one. The guns are being given new electrical servo drives, electro-optical fire control system, video tracking and a new air defence radar.
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